...PART TWO How Markets Work 3 After studying this chapter, you will be able to: • Explain the influences on demand • Explain the influences on supply Demand and Supply • Describe a competitive market and think about a price as an opportunity cost • Explain how demand and supply determine prices and quantities bought and sold • Use the demand and supply model to make predictions about changes in prices and quantities What makes the prices of oil and gasoline double in just one year? Will these prices keep on rising? Are the oil companies taking advantage of people? This chapter enables you to answer these and similar questions about prices-prices rise, prices that fall, and prices that fluctuate. You already know that economics is about the choices people make to cope with scarcity and how those choices helps us to answer the big economic question: What, and for whom are goods and services produced? how, It also that respond to incentives. Prices act as incentives. You're going to see how people respond to prices and how prices get determined by demand and supply. The demand and supply model that you study in this chapter is the main tool of economics. It helps us to say more about what it takes for the pursuit of self-interest to promote the social interest. In Reading Between the Lines at the end of the chapter, we'll examine the recent surge in the price of rice across Asia. 57 58 CHAPTER 3 Demand and Supply Markets and Prices ...
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...Discussion Questions (1, 3, 9) 1. Contrast how a market system and a command economy try to cope with economic scarcity. A market system allows for the private ownership of resources and coordinates economic activity through market prices. It act in their own self-interest and seek to satisfaction or profit through their own decisions regarding consumption or production. The result is competition and widely dispersed economic power. The command economy is characterized by public ownership of nearly all property resources and economic decisions are made through central planning. The planning board, appointed by the government determines production goals for each enterprise. The division of output between capital and consumer goods is centrally decided based on the board’s long-term priorities 3. Why is private property, and the protection of property rights, so critical to the success in the market system? How do property rights encourage cooperation? Answer: Protection of private property is the source of capitalism. Without it, there would be no clear owners/sellers no defined buyers and without both, the market system does not exist. It encourages because voluntary exchange only occurs when both parties expect to gain from the transaction. The buyer and seller cannot simply take what they want. They have to work together. 9. In a sentence, describe the meaning of the phrase “invisible hand.” Answer: Market prices act as an “invisible...
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...Chapter 3—Scarcity, Trade-Offs and Economic Growth TRUE/FALSE 1. In a market economy, government officials make most production decisions in a centralized manner. ANS: F PTS: 1 2. Consumer sovereignty means that consumers vote with their dollars in a market economy, which helps determine what is produced. ANS: T PTS: 1 3. In a market economy, prices help determine the distribution of goods and services but not the allocation of resources. ANS: F PTS: 1 4. An increase in production of one good will have zero opportunity cost only if the economy initially existed at a point inside the production possibilities curve. ANS: T PTS: 1 5. Capital-intensive production techniques tend to be utilized most commonly in countries where labor is relatively cheap. ANS: F PTS: 1 6. High wage countries like the United States tend to use less labor-intensive production methods than low wage countries like Mexico. ANS: T PTS: 1 7. An economy that has many unemployed workers and idle factories is not operating efficiently. ANS: T PTS: 1 8. The production possibilities curve marks the boundary between attainable and unattainable combinations of output. ANS: T PTS: 1 9. Any output combination outside the production possibilities curve is attainable in the current period only if prices decrease. ANS: F PTS: 1 10. A decrease in the unemployment rate will shift an economy's production possibilities curve outward. ANS: F PTS: 1 ...
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...Principles of Economics 2. Subject code FSBN 102 3. Status of subject Core 4. Stage Foundation 5. Credit Hour 3 (3 hours per week x 14 weeks) 6. Pre-Requisite None 7. Assessment Coursework Examination Total Semester 1 : 60% : 40% : 100% 8. Semester 9. Objective of subject Economics subject aims to provide students with a basic introduction to the essential principles of Economics. In addition, it also provides students with the analytical tools necessary to understand both the domestic and international economic environment within which business organisations (public and private) operate. 10. Synopsis of subject The important reasons to study economics are to learn a way of thinking, to understand society, and to understand the global affairs. 11. Details of subject Week 1 Contents TOPIC: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS Learning Outcomes: After attending the lesson, the students should be able to: • • • • • outline the reasons to study economics identify the scope and diverse fields of economics explain scarcity, choice and opportunity cost illustrate production possibility frontier compare and contrast types of economic systems Hours 3 Foundation Studies in Business, Stamford College Petaling Jaya 1 Activity: Tutorial questions Further reading for this lesson: Chapters 1 and 2 th Case, K. E., & Fair, R. C. (2005). Principles of Economics (7 ed.). Prentice-Hall. Chapter 1 th Sloman, J. (2003). Economics (5 ed.). Prentice-Hall...
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...Post-Graduate Diploma in Management Managerial Economics Course Owner: Sadananda Prusty, Ph. D Name of Faculty Members to Teach this Course (To be mentioned after final course allocation) Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad Course Background and Learning Objectives: “Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” So wrote Alfred Marshall, the great nineteenth-century economist, in his textbook, Principles of Economics. Although we have learned much about the economy since Marshall’s time, this definition of economics is as true today as it was in 1890, when the first edition of his text was published. In recent years, there are many questions about the economy that might spark any one’s curiosity. Why are apartments so hard to find in Mumbai City? Why do airlines charge less for a round-trip ticket? Why executive class airfare is costlier than economic class? Why are jobs easy to find in some years and hard to find in others? Why a package tour costs less as compared to individual booking of air ticket and hotel? Moreover, as one go about his/her life, he/she make many economic decisions. During student carrier one has to decide how many years to stay in school. After joining in a job, one has to decide how much of his/her income to spend, how much to save, and how to invest his/her savings. When running a small business or a large corporation, and one will decide...
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...Course Managerial Economics and Globalization Follow Below Link to Download Tutorial https://homeworklance.com/downloads/eco-550-entire-course-managerial-economics-globalization/ For More Information Visit Our Website ( https://homeworklance.com/ ) Email us At: Support@homeworklance.com or lancehomework@gmail.com ECO 550 DQ 1: Managerial Economic Decision Making From the e-Activity, assess how business leaders use managerial economics to make business decisions indicating how profits may be impacted. Analyze the principal-agent problem to determine how the relationship could be less adversarial. ECO 550 DQ 2: Fundamental Economic Concepts Pick a recently released good or service. Then, determine the factors that must be evaluated regarding the product’s supply and demand. Analyze how these factors impact the decision to supply the product indicating the significance of each in the decision-making process. ECO 550 DQ 3 From the e-Activity, explain the most important information you would require on which to base sound economic judgments. Explain your rationale. Assess the various forms of organizing and processing information to determine which is the most difficult to get correct. Explain your rationale ECO 550 DQ 4 Analyze the characteristics that make any transaction possible and justify the importance of each of the characteristics.Evaluate the role institutions play in transactions and discuss the likely economic impact if institutions...
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...the context of international operations. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources Madura, J. (2012). International financial management (11th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western, Cengage Learning. Supplemental Resources Al Nasser, O.M. (2010). How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? The role of local conditions. Latin American Business Review 11, 111-139. Kornecki, L. & E. M. Ekanayake. (2011). Inward FDI stock in the U.S. economy and state based determinants. Advances in Management, 4(6), 13-24. Ranjan, V. & Agrawal, G. (2011). FDI inflow determinants in BRIC countries: A panel data analysis. International Business Research, 4(4), 255-263. United Nations. (2011). Foreign Direct Investments in LDCs: Lessons learned from the decade 20012010 and the way forward. United National Conference on Trade and Development. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Compare multinational financial management to domestic financial management. 2. Apply the key trade theories and methods, and analyze the factors that influence trade and capital flows. 3. Evaluate the major international financial markets to determine effective methods for financing global business operations. 4. Analyze the economic variables that influence exchange rate movements and equilibrium price to anticipate fluctuations and...
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...ที่ดินและการเก็บเกี่ยวผลผลิตจะไม่มุ่งเพื่อ กาไรของเอกชน” เบอร์ดรัน (Bertrand Russel) เป็นการสนับสนุนให้มีการค้าที่ดน และทุน ิ เป็นของตัวเองได้ History of Economics Thought Chapter Six : Socialism 1 รูปแบบของสังคมนิยม แบ่งตามวิธีการ แบ่งตามแนวคิด History of Economics Thought Chapter Six : Socialism 2 รูปแบบของสังคมนิยม (ต่อ) แบ่งตามวิธีการ ดูจากวิธีการที่ทาให้เกิดสังคมนิยม แบ่งเป็น สังคมนิยมแบบประชาธิปไตย ประชาชนมีเสรีภาพในการผลิต เพื่อเข้าสู่สังคมนิยม สังคมนิยมแบบบังคับหรือคอมมิวนิสต์ รัฐดาเนินการทุกอย่าง การเปลี่ยนแปลงทางเศรษฐกิจใช้วิธี รุนแรง History of Economics Thought Chapter Six : Socialism 3 รูปแบบของสังคมนิยม (ต่อ) แบ่งตามแนวคิด แนวคิดแบบมาร์กซิสม์ การเปลี่ยนแปลงของสังคมจะเกิดขึ้นโดยมนุษย์กระทาให้เกิดขึ้นโดยการปฏิวัติ แนวคิดแบบนีโอมาร์กซิสม์ การเปลี่ยนสู่สังคมนิยมไปตามกฎเกณฑ์ธรรมชาติ มนุษย์ไม่ต้องปฏิวัติ History of Economics Thought Chapter Six : Socialism 4 นักเศรษฐศาสตร์คนสาคัญของสังคมนิยม คาร์ล มาร์กซ์ (Karl Marx) ค.ศ. 1818 – 1883 โรเบิร์ต โอเวน (Robert Owen) นายแพทย์วิลเลี่ยม คิง (William King) ชาลส์ ฟูริเออร์ (Charies Fourier) History of Economics Thought Chapter Six : Socialism 5 ลักษณะของเศรษฐกิจและสังคมภายหลังการปฏิวัติอุตสาหกรรม การปฏิวัติอุตสาหกรรม ได้แบ่งออกเป็น 2 ระยะ คือ ระยะแรกระหว่าง ค.ศ. 1760 – 1860 ระยะที่ 2 ระหว่าง ค.ศ. 1860 – 1914 History of Economics Thought Chapter Six : Socialism 6 ระยะแรกระหว่าง ค.ศ. 1760 – 1860 อังกฤษเป็นผูนำควำมก้ำวหน้ำในอุตสำหกรรมทอผ้ำ และ ้ อุตสำหกรรมหนัก...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form PROJECT TOPICS IN ECONOMICS ATTENTION: ATTENTION:BEFORE YOU READ THE PROJECT TOPICS BELOW, PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION BELOW.THANK YOU! NOTE: WE WILL SEND YOU THE ABSTRACT,TABLE OF CONTENT AND CHAPTER ONE OF YOUR APPROVED TOPIC FOR FREE. CHOOSE FROM THE LIST OF TOPICS BELOW. SEND THE APPROVED PROJECT TOPIC TO ANY OF THESE NUMBERS-08068231953,08168759420 WE WILL THEN SEND YOU THE ABSTRACT,TABLE OF CONTENT AND CHAPTER ONE FOR FREE NOTE ALSO: IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN APPROVED PROJECT TOPIC THAT IS NOT ON OUR WEBSITE,WE CAN ALSO DEVELOP IT FOR YOU.WE WILL SEND YOU THE ABSTRACT,TABLE OF CONTENT AND CHAPTER ONE FOR FREE WITHIN 48 HOURS JUST SEND THE APPROVED TOPIC TO 08068231953,08168759420 PROJECT TOPICS IN ECONOMICS: 1. URBANIZATION A PROBLEM TO FOOD PRODUCTION AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE) ( 5 chapters and 62 pages) 2. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADULT EDUCATION GRADUATES IN ENUGU STATE NIGERIA)(5 chapters and 76 pages) 3. THE GROWTH OF INDIGENOUS FIRMS IN NIGERIA PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS: (A CASE STUDY OF AJAOKUTA STEEL COMPANY LIMITED IN KOGI STATE) ) ( 3 chapters and 37 pages) 4. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PREREQUISITE FOR HIGH PRODUCTIVITY (A CASE STUDY OF BEECHAM PLC) ( 3 chapters and 38 pages) 5. EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY (A CASE STUDY OF ESUT, ENUGU) (5 chapters and 69 pages) 6. THE ROLE OF PLANNING AND FORECASTING IN BUSINESS...
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...INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS COURSE GUIDELINE June 2015 CONTENT 1. COURSE STAFF 3 1.2. Communication with Staff 3 2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE 3 2.2. Teaching times and Locations 3 2.3. Units of Credit 3 2.4. Perquisite and Parallel courses 3 2.5. Relationship of this course to other course offerings 3 2.6. Approach to learning and teaching 4 3. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES 4 3.2. Course objectives 4 3.3. Student learning and outcomes 4 3.4. Teaching Strategies 4 4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT 5 4.1. Workload 5 4.2. Attendance 5 4.3. General Conduct and Behavior 5 4.4. Keeping informed 5 5. LEARNING ASSESSMENT 5 5.1. Assessment details 5 5.2. Assignment Submission Procedure 7 5.3. Late submission 7 5.4. Assignment Format 7 6. ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM 7 7. STUDENT RESOURCES 8 7.1. Course Resources 8 8. COURSE SCHEDULE 9 COURSE STAFF Teaching Staff: Cao Minh Man PhD Room: A1-308 Phone: Email: cmman@hcmiu.edu.vn Consultant times: To be advised/ also by appointment Tutor: Room: Phone: Email: Consultant times: 1 Communication with Staff Student are advised to contact staff during consultant times, or by arranging an appointment INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE 2. Units of Credit UOC value for the course: 3 1 Perquisite and Parallel courses Not applicable 2 Relationship of this course to other course offerings This is core...
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...MBA 6053, Economics for Managers Course Syllabus Course Description Review of managerial economics and problems encountered in firm management. Examines changing economic environment, business trends and fluctuations, and introduces forecasting techniques. Prerequisites None Course Textbook Keat, P., & Young, P. (2009). Managerial economics (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Course Learning Objectives Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Discuss managerial economics and its relationship to microeconomics and other related fields of study such as finance, marketing, and statistics. 2. Decide economic goals for the firm and develop optimal decisions that will bring the firm closest to those goals. 3. Define supply, demand, and equilibrium price. 4. Apply the concepts of price elasticity, cross-elasticity, and income elasticity. 5. Specify the components of a regression model that can be used to estimate a demand equation. 6. Define production function, and explain the difference between a short-run and a long-run production function. 7. Distinguish between economic cost and accounting cost. 8. Describe the key characteristics of the four basic market types used in economic analysis. 9. Cite the main differences between monopolistic competition and oligopoly. 10. Analyze the practice of cartel pricing. 11. Illustrate game theory, and explain how it helps better understand mutually interdependent management decisions. 12. Define...
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...Big Sandy Community and Technical College Course Syllabus PS Number: | 2122 | Semester: | Summer | Year: | 2016 | Faculty Name | Daniel E. Bell | Title: | Professor of Business & Economics | Course Prefix & Number: | ECO 202 | Credit Course Hours: 3 | | Course Prerequisites: | Credit will not be given for this course to students who have receive credit in ECO 260. | Course Title: | Principles of Macroeconomics | Catalog CourseDescription | A study of how society’s needs are satisfied with the limited resources available. Topics include contemporary issues such as inflation, unemployment, economic growth, international dependencies, and how public policy deals with them. | Instructor Contact Information: | Campus Location: | Prestonsburg | Building & Room: | Pike 215D | Office Hours: | N/A | Office Phone Number: | 1-888-641-4132 | Alternate Number: | 886-3863, Ext. 64781 | Best Times to Call: | The best place to communicate with me is in the message area of the blackboard course shell. | KCTCS Email: | Daniel.bell@kctcs.edu | Special Instructions: | N/A | Supervisor Contact Information: | Name: | Kelli Hall | Campus Location: | Pikeville | Building & Room: | N 102 | Office Phone Number: | 606-218-1275 or Ext 81275 | KCTCS Email: | Kelli.Hall@kctcs.edu | Text and Supplies: Macroeconomics, McConnell & Brue, Flynn 19th Edition – Copyright 2012 by...
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...ECO 100 – Principles of Economics COURSE DESCRIPTION Presents a survey of basic macro- and microeconomic principles and concepts. Reviews the economic dynamics of market forces affecting competition, different economic systems, the role of government in the economy, and economic aspects of international trade. Discusses the labor market, interest rates and the supply of money, and performance of a national economy. Examines the use of economics in business decisions, considering such principles as opportunity costs, diminishing returns, and the marginal principle. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources O'Sullivan, A., Sheffrin, S., & Perez, S. (2012). Survey of economics: Principles, applications, and tools (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall. MyEconLab book key Note: This book key comes with the purchase of a new textbook and is needed in order to access MyEconLab. Supplemental Resources Aaronson, D., Mazumder, B., & Schechter, S. (2010). What is behind the rise in long-term unemployment? Economic Perspectives, 34(3/4), 28-51. Andreyeva, T., Long, M. W., & Brownell, K. D. (2010). The Impact of Food Prices on Consumption: A Systematic Review of Research on the Price Elasticity of Demand for Food. American Journal of Public Health, 100(2), 216-22 Heyne, P., Boettke, P. J., & Prychitko, D. L. (2010). The economic way of thinking. (12th ed.). Upper Saddle River: Pearson-Prentice Hall. High, J. (2011). Economic Theory and the Rise of Big Business in...
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...University of Guelph Department of Economics College of Management and Economics ECON*1050 (01, 03) Introductory Microeconomics E. Adomait (Section 1 MWF 10:30 to 11:20 RozH 104) (Section 3 TTh 1 :00 to 2 :20 RozH 101) Email: eadomait@uoguelph.ca Fall 2010 MacKinnon 728 Ext. 56343 It is your responsibility as a student to be aware of and to abide by the University’s policies regarding academic misconduct, e-mail communication, maintaining copies of out-of class assignments, what to do when you cannot meet a course requirement and the drop date for this semester. To better understand these policies, visit: http://www.economics.uoguelph.ca/courses.asp COURSE OUTLINE Synopsis Market economies primarily rely upon the price system as a means of allocating resources. The objective of Introductory Microeconomics is to develop in students an understanding and appreciation of this price system. The course will survey the strengths and weaknesses of the market economy, as well as the successes and failures of government intervention in the market. Much of the course content is theoretical in nature. Once students have acquired facility in handling these analytical tools, attention will turn towards issues of public policy such as marketing boards, competition policy, environmental policy, and trade policy. Required Textbook: Michael Parkin and Robin Bade, Microeconomics, Canada in the Global Environment, 7th Ed. Purchased new, the textbook is bundled with an access...
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...cross border transactions of goods, services and resources between two or more nations. This is an essential component in learning and understanding international trading principles and concepts. 2. Learning Outcomes: The objective of this course is to enable students to: 1. Understand nature ,scope and structure of international business 2. Understand impact of environmental factors on international business operations 3. Learn role of international economic institutions and global and regional trade agreements 4. Know about role of foreign trade in Indian Economy. 3. Module Overview The course will be covered in 20 sessions, including Mid Term exam after 10th session and each session is of 1 hour and 30 minutes. 4. Book (Text Book): Joshi, Rakesh Mohan, International Business, Oxford University Press, 2013. Suggested Readings (Reference Books/Articles Etc): Daniels, John D., et al (2010).Pearson, 2013 SESSION | TOPIC | 1 | Globalization and International Business | 2 | Theories of International Trade | 3 | International Trade Patterns and balance of Payments | 4 | Case Study 1: Developing Countries ‘...
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